At noon the next day, Brother Guo and Brother Guo drove back in a carriage and bought 1,000 bricks, an iron stove, three necks, three stoves, and two bags of ash. (It's cement, at that time it was called ash)

The fine sand to be mixed with the ash was sifted out by Uncle Guo and Second Brother Guo at home at noon.

Zhou Shujie had lunch and sent the two children and her mother-in-law to Aunt Guo's house, and Guo's third sister-in-law helped Zhou Shujie take care of the children in Aunt Guo's house.

Aunt Guo took the two female generals of the Guo family plus me, and the four of us stood there waiting to help.

In fact, we don't need us at all, it's just because I'm too curious about what the fire wall looks like! That's why Aunt Guo, Sister-in-law Guo, and Second Sister-in-law Guo have to come over to help.

In previous winters, the broken pots used to hold charcoal were taken out and cleaned, and two pots of sand and mud mixed with ash were used.

A few of us women helped move the bricks into the house, and there was nothing left for us to interfere with.

Through measurement, it was decided to build this fire wall one meter away from the north wall and two meters away from the side of the kang.

If you are too close to the kang, you will feel too roasted, and if you are too far away, it will not be too warm, so I decided to open it two meters away.

Originally, it was a fire wall that began to be built on the ground, but when it was half a meter high, Uncle Guo shouted to stop, he said: "This kind of fire wall is not right, this fire wall is heated by smoke, it has to be the height of the iron stove, or the height higher than the stove, in order to successfully inhale the smoke in." Now next to the ground, the bricks below are equivalent to waste, there will be no heat at all, no smoke can be inhaled, and it may not be good to burn. ”

After listening to Uncle Guo's words, we all felt that it made sense, so we dismantled all the pieces we had just built.

Take the iron stove and compare it, this iron stove is 60 centimeters high, between 45 centimeters and 55 centimeters there is a circular ten centimeter smoke opening, this outlet can not be directly connected to the fire wall, you have to put a neck, and then the height from the ground is 70 centimeters, that is to say, the fire wall must be more than 70 centimeters before it will be hot.

In order to save some bricks, we set up three brick stacks 60 centimeters high on the ground, and these three stacks were plastered with more ash sand, otherwise he would not be able to resist the weight of the fire wall above.

Two stone strips 8 cm thick, cm wide and 1.25 m were taken from Uncle Guo's house on top of the brick stacks.

After putting the stone strip, the fire wall began to be built again, and this time it was much easier to build it again, and directly inlaid the smoke outlet connected to the stove, the neck, into the fire wall.

It took half an afternoon to come out, a two-meter-long, 25-centimeter-wide, 180-centimeter-high wall of fire, and of course 60 centimeters in this 180-centimeter height, there are three brick pillars with spaces in 60 centimeters.

The two spaces below this are just enough to put wood, and if you have firewood that is not too dry, you can do it in two days for the test here.

On the chimney leading to the outside of the fire kang, a 10-centimeter round hole was deducted on the side of the fire wall, and the stove tube that smoked the fire wall was directly inserted into the chimney of the fire kang, and a place was deducted on the chimney to insert the smoke plug board, so that after the fire was burned, the smoke plug board was plugged in, and it was not easy to cool whether it was a kang or a fire wall.

All the remaining bricks, sand and gravel have been moved out, and the floor is swept clean even if it is completed, and the newly built fire wall cannot be burned, so it will be burned after two days of letting it dry on its own.

These materials cost 360 yuan and 40 yuan, and Guo Sange gave them to Zhou Shujie when they came back from the county.

When they were all busy, Zhou Shujie took it out, and the eldest aunt sent it over, a piece of five catties of meat, and wanted to leave Aunt Guo'er's family here for dinner.

No matter how they stayed, Aunt Guo didn't stay, and they all went home.

Later, Zhou Shujie thought about it, locked the door of the house, and went to Aunt Guo's house with 5 catties of meat.

Put the meat on the pot table of Aunt Guo'er's house, enter the house and sit on the kang, and said with a bit of a delicate taste: "I won't leave tonight, I'll eat at your house, I have to eat meat, and I can't eat meat." ”

Aunt Guo and the others were stunned by his series of actions, but they couldn't help but laugh.

Aunt Guo smiled and said, "Okay, okay, haha! Don't go, just eat here, and eat stew tonight." ”

Sister-in-law Guo smiled and said, "Then we may be wiped out tonight, hahaha!"

From the ground came a few tender cheers, "Oh...... Oh...... There's meat to eat!"

A room full of adults laughed.

Aunt Guo couldn't help but laugh and pretended to be angry and said, "You little rabbits, I'm still treating you harshly." ”

The eldest Guo Ping, when he saw that his grandmother was angry, pulled the corner of his clothes and said carefully: "Grandma, don't be angry, well, the meat is for you to eat, and we can just drink the soup." ”

As soon as the words fell, laughter broke out in the room.

Hahaha!ha

Dinner came and ended in Aunt Guo's relieved smile and Guo Ping's expression of being laughed by adults.

Tell Aunt Guo and them that tomorrow we will drown the sauerkraut together, Aunt Guo'er's house will be flooded in the first afternoon, and Zhou Shujie's house will be flooded in the afternoon.

Zhou Shujie and her mother-in-law hugged the tightly wrapped child and went home.

After breakfast the next day, Zhou Shujie wrapped the child tightly and led her mother-in-law to Aunt Guo's house.

If it was used to let the children be at home, the mother-in-law would just watch it, but now it is not good, the two children have begun to learn to turn over, and they can't say that they will turn over one day. If there is no one around you who understands, I am afraid that they will be in danger.

Zhou Shujie went to Aunt Guo's house to see that the preliminary preparations had been completed.

The cabbage was stripped of the old gang, the roots were cut and scrubbed, and the water for the scalding cabbage was also boiled in two large pots.

After waiting for a while, the water in the pot boiled. They all rolled up their arms and sleeves and began to work.

First sprinkle two handfuls of large grains of salt into a clean jar, blanch the cabbage in boiling water for about two minutes, take it out to control the moisture, and then stack it in the jar layer by layer. Remember, a layer of cabbage and a layer of salt.

The whole jar is full, and a heavy stone is placed on top of it, so that it can press the sauerkraut down, and then the final procedure is to pour the water, fill the jar with water, and let the water cover the cabbage, if the cabbage is exposed to the water, it will be easy to rot.

After flooding the three jars of sauerkraut at Aunt Guo's house in the morning, Zhou Shujie had lunch at Aunt Guo's house again, and after eating, she went home and boiled a pot of boiling water first, and as soon as the water was boiled, Aunt Guo and the others came over.

According to the procedure of the first meridian, Zhou Shujie pickled a large vat of sauerkraut.